Academic fraud

I got the latest Reason magazine, and it had an article titled "Cut-Rate Diplomas" by Paul Sperry(not online yet) that raised my hackles a bit. It targeted one particular government employee who was, apparently, incompetent, but who rose to her position on the basis of credentials issued by some box top U called Hamilton University. What pissed me off about the article is that he blamed the fake diploma mills rather than the system which depended on some outside credentials.

While this article delves into a few cases we uncovered, our reporting
suggests that what we found is not exceptional. Indeed, an editor at
History News Network receives so many tips about purported plagiarism
that he now investigates only those involving well-known scholars.

So, an idea: All of this flack over P2P file sharing has raised the stakes in copyright infringement pretty high. Is there any way to let some of that whoopass loose in academia?

This is pretty funny, especially since most professors include a statement in their syllabus that any plagarism would result in an immediate F in the class and likely disciplinary action. Schools try to be pretty hard on undergrads and grad students plagarizing but I guess it doesn't extend to academic papers and books!

This site gives over 50 documents exposing unprecedented fraud going on
in Canadian academia.

Briefly:

My PhD research of five years was stolen by my supervisor who, a few
months before this, fraudulently changed my status to "lapsed student"
and so removed me from the University. She published, in American
journals, three papers claiming credit for my discoveries, then, said
that my discoveries belong to "community" and she simply "salvaged"
them. She characterized me as "a man of proven scholarly attainments"
and "a very creative scientist", but her envy and hatred has put an end
to my career. The documents show her pathological dishonesty.

The University has admitted that she "repeated" my experiments and
"replicated or extended" my results, that she did not acknowledge this
fact, and that my research was, in fact, based on theoretical paper
published by me before I came to this university. Yet, these
investigations ended with the conclusion that she did not steal my
research. Five other professors and University of Toronto President
participated in the fraud and obstruction of justice.

The fraud was followed by the largest cover-up in history. Over one
hundred of organizations, govt. offices, law firms, etc. were corrupted
and made to cooperate with the perpetrators of the fraud. The
Government repeatedly refused to give me the constitutionally
guaranteed equal protection of the Law and any help whatsoever.

This story is prohibited for publication in Canada's media for
political reasons, and the fraud is continuing. I have no means of
getting back the authorship of my research. No job has been available
to me for 18 years. My protest that continued for nine months at the
University campus was ended through harassment by the University
police.

IT'S TIME TO STOP THIS FRAUD.
IT'S TIME TO STOP THE CONSPIRACY OF SILENCE.

Michael Pyshnov.

My address:

[I have removed the address and phone number for privacy reasons. I'll go check his web site to see if it's there, but if you wish to contact Mr. Pyshnov you can email me.)

If my web site does not show - print "university of toronto fraud" in
Google and click on Cached.